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from The Coffee Scoop leaflet Summer 2008

Did you know that coffee helps make great compost? Recycle your used grounds, or pick up a free bag with your coffee. Here’s how to make them work.

Feed garden plants

Use as a dressing for vegetables, roses and other plants. Remember that coffee grounds are acidic, so add leaves and dried grass to the mix.

Pep up your compost

When mixed with brown material such as leaves and straw, coffee…

from The Coffee Scoop leaflet Summer 2008

Iced Kenya coffee with strawberries

- 8 cup cafetiere

- 100g ground Kenya coffee (freshly ground is best)

- Large jug half filled with ice

- Strawberries, sliced and whole

Make the coffee and brew for 4 minutes before plunging.

Allow to cool down for a while, pour into the jug and top up with berry slices. Serve garnished with whole fruits.

from The Coffee Scoop leaflet Summer 2008

Your donations to the last Starbucks Bookdrive have achieved record results – last December we received an amazing 222,000 new books donated by customers and partners in our collection boxes. These have been distributed throughout January to local primary schools to help inspire a love of reading among children across the UK.

In the papers today – the good news is drinking coffee could have a protective effect against Alzheimer’s disease. A daily dose of caffeine blocks the disruptive effects of high cholesterol that scientists have linked to the disease, a study has found.

The findings, in the Journal of Neuroinflammation, were based on research by scientists at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

In the study, researchers gave…

Latest comment by YourMailWill 5 months ago

I knew there was a reason why I drink so much coffee.. It’s good for you!

Actually it’s probably…

"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his nature into his pictures." - Henry Ward Beecher

For all those who are creative in art- Be it painting in acrylics,oils,guache,crayons, pencils,pen,ink or charcoal. Or any other medium

We would love to see your art!

Something to brighten up the walls of this coffee shop.

There must be loads of buddin artists in and around Hull who want to show off there work

Latest comment by Rosy 6 months ago

I went into Starbucks in the town centre yesterday and they have quite a few paintings up by local…

Did you know that Starbucks cafe doesn’t just do coffee? It takes part in the National Literacy Trust and collects books that are distributed to over 200 primary schools nationally. They set a target in 2007 of 120,000 books and early results showed that it was a big success – all thanks to those customers who have given ‘the gift of reading’ by donating children’s books.

Latest comment by mimi 7 months ago

I think it is really important for children to read mine love to read and have always had moads of…

Just as nikki talks about promoting the work of local artists on this site and in local cafes, Caffe Nero asks musicians that if their music fits into the type of music they like to play, then the musician should get in touch. It has an artist of the month and this month it is Jack Savoretti.

Caffe Nero creates a great ambiance in their coffee bars, they play classical, opera, classic jazz, latin jazz and acoustic music. They have musicians…

(taken from the Coffee Scoop leaflet Winter-Spring 08)

The astonishingly luxuriant environment of the Amazon watershed in Peru is home to a groups of 4500 families working in cooperatives to produce organic Fairtrade coffee. They live on the edges of the Amazon in a zone of global biological importance. The coffee growers village cooperatives have united to form CECOVASA Federation based in the coffee town of Putina Punco. As a Federation…